Nesca Adeline Robb was born in Belfast on 27 May 1905.
11 Facts About Nesca Robb
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Nesca Robb published her research as Neoplatonism of the Italian renaissance in 1935.
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Nesca Robb was a member of the Northern Ireland committee of the National Trust, to which she presented the family home, Lisnabreeny House, Castlereagh, in 1937.
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Nesca Robb engaged in social and voluntary work for a time, before moving to London in 1938 to take up a position at the London Institute of Italian Studies.
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Nesca Robb published her first volume with Blackwell in 1939 as Poems.
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Nesca Robb was the registrar and advisory officer to the Women's Employment Federation between 1940 and 1944, during which time she wrote a partial account of life An Ulsterwoman in England in 1942.
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Nesca Robb returned to Northern Ireland in 1944, working for a number of public bodies including PEN and the National Trust, and writing.
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Nesca Robb served as a member of the Committee for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts in 1951.
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In 1963 Nesca Robb became a member of the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde.
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Nesca Robb produced a final volume of poetry in 1970, Ards eclogues, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Nesca Robb died on 18 May 1976 in Oxford, and is buried at Bangor cemetery, County Down.